A tribute track for a beloved former room mate and friend. Bobo was the much loved cat of Aaron Funk (Venetian Snares). He was 15 when he passed on earlier this year and proud of the award I gave him for World's Smallest Badger.
effort post time because im procrastinating this essay by douglas coupland: zelienople
zelienople is a chicago-based band who are described on last.fm as 'drone-based jazz', or, if you listen to tags, 'ambient', 'drone', and 'experimental', whatever the fuck those things are supposed to mean.
i think zelienople are a remarkable band because their back catalogue consists of eleven full length albums and one ep and all of it is damn close to flawless. these guys have been doing what they do for more than a decade now and i can't think of a single band who have been as consistently brilliant
you can start anywhere with them tho i would recommend 'sleeper coach', or 'stone academy'. you'll find a mix of broke-down barely-there folk, gorgeous dronescapes, haunting vocals and people hitting wires taken off suspension bridges on all of their albums, and each one still manages to retain a coherent sense of itself in opposition to the others
what i love the most is the sense of beautiful abandonment i get from all of their music. i find it impossible not to imagine somewhere derelict, llost, forgotten, uncared for, yet still beautiful when i listen to zelienople. cracked windows, empty chairs, weeds growing up between gaps in the concrete. i've never been to pripyat. i've never been to detroit.
effort post time because im procrastinating this essay by douglas coupland: zelienople
zelienople is a chicago-based band who are described on last.fm as 'drone-based jazz', or, if you listen to tags, 'ambient', 'drone', and 'experimental', whatever the fuck those things are supposed to mean.
i think zelienople are a remarkable band because their back catalogue consists of eleven full length albums and one ep and all of it is damn close to flawless. these guys have been doing what they do for more than a decade now and i can't think of a single band who have been as consistently brilliant
you can start anywhere with them tho i would recommend 'sleeper coach', or 'stone academy'. you'll find a mix of broke-down barely-there folk, gorgeous dronescapes, haunting vocals and people hitting wires taken off suspension bridges on all of their albums, and each one still manages to retain a coherent sense of itself in opposition to the others
what i love the most is the sense of beautiful abandonment i get from all of their music. i find it impossible not to imagine somewhere derelict, llost, forgotten, uncared for, yet still beautiful when i listen to zelienople. cracked windows, empty chairs, weeds growing up between gaps in the concrete. i've never been to pripyat. i've never been to detroit.
The destination was Boston but they only got as far as Zelienople, Pennsylvania. Brian and Matt didn’t make it to the coast during that ill-fated trip in the Summer of ‘95 but a band was conceived during the journey.
that rather cryptic little story is the beginning of the band's biography. i dont know why they were trying to get to boston or why they failed but there you have it
i guess Gesaffelstein has started making it big w/ the pitchfork crowd
which is weird because industrial-tinged french tech house isn't what i'd associate w/ that type of listener
and upon googling it would seem that Kanye tapped him for production on Yeezus, which would explain that sudden surge in popularity and also why Yeezus seemed so familiar-sounding.
Chemical Chords is surprising. It's still unmistakably Stereolab, with all the "space age bachelor pad music" trappings one would expect, but it sounds different in some way that I really can't put my finger on. (And no, it's not the absence of Mary Hansen.) Regardless of what the difference is, it's nice to confirm that they weren't just treading water since Dots and Loops.
Now I need to listen to their other post-Mary Hansen albums, to hear how they got to this point.
Hey all. I made a silly mixtape for my birthday. Only my birthday was last week and I didn't get it all finished until tonight. Oh man, so wacky. You can stream it on 8tracks here, or just download it from my dropbox here.
Pangur Bán, Mojave, have you listened to Jungle Revolution by Congo Natty? I freaking love it, and it seems like it would be relevant to your interests as well.
The Bad Plus has returned to Sony and signed a multi-album deal with Sony Music Masterworks. In April 2014, the label will release the band's interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's masterpiece The Rite of Spring. Their second album will come out on Sony Music Masterworks' jazz imprint Okeh Records later in the year.
the guitar playing is beautiful, lyrical, varied and original, the songs are highly memorable and musically interesting, the soloing is off the wall, everyone involved is amazing (*Pharoah Sanders on sax, Elvin Jones on drums, and the less well known but still hella rad Charnett Moffett on bass, production by Bill Laswell*)
Update in my ongoing quest to listen to ALL the Duke Ellington: The Queen's Suite is ace. In particular, "Single Petal of a Rose" may be in the same damn-near-perfect ranking as "Mount Harissa".
I'd link to the song on youtube, but all the uploads seem to be rips from vinyl with a lot of surface noise. This live version is pretty good, though I still prefer the studio version.
Metalheadz has had a good year, there was new stuff from Jubei and Om Unit and Goldie is doing stuff again, plus there was that Unofficial Jah remix from Dom and Roland.
here's some nice and enjoyable kayo dot-esque avant-garde weirdprog. and i promise i'm not only saying kayo dot-esque because toby driver posted this album on fb, it definitely has that same sort of atonal/otherworldly vibe with some similar kickass vocal harmonies
The Modern Jazz Quartet is the classiest anything, ever.
In the annals of "Why the hell would this band reunite and record new material? Your prior ending was pretty much a perfect farewell," Five Iron Frenzy ranked pretty highly. Well, the new album turns out to be a worthy addition to their legacy. It didn't immediately blow me away, but I think that's just because I'm a different person than I was a decade and a half ago, when I heard "My Evil Plan to Save the World". Still, the new tunes like "Against a Sea of Troubles", "So Far", and "Into Your Veins" are songs whose greatness isn't immediately apparent on the first listen. I'm very interested to see where this new chapter of the FIF story is going.
Naney get on this yo it is... underground club music sounding stuff? and im liking this a lot and i am really struggling for a genre so help me out here
if you want to find other stuff that sounds like that, it kinda has some ostgut ton or maybe lighter perc trax kinda vibes going on so dig around in those labels, you might find something that piques your interests
so somebody I met today said that he had discovered the ultimate melody of all time by converting pi to base 12 and playing it as notes in a 12-tone scale.
and this is his video. I guess it does sound pretty nice
I know I mentioned it already but holy hell I love this track so much. It's like, the best of classic 80's style electro crossed ver with some Zedd-style modern stuff, with some kickass vox from Madame Buttons as well. I can't stop listening to it.
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which is weird because industrial-tinged french tech house isn't what i'd associate w/ that type of listener
and upon googling it would seem that Kanye tapped him for production on Yeezus, which would explain that sudden surge in popularity and also why Yeezus seemed so familiar-sounding.
Sorry that took so long.
also, new Burial EP is up for streaming on Pitch4k if anyone's interested
well done, internet
Now I need to listen to their other post-Mary Hansen albums, to hear how they got to this point.
It looks like Gaza Minus the Rapist is going places
nice places
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i will keep posting this until erryone listens to it
'cause it good
I'd link to the song on youtube, but all the uploads seem to be rips from vinyl with a lot of surface noise. This live version is pretty good, though I still prefer the studio version.
In the annals of "Why the hell would this band reunite and record new material? Your prior ending was pretty much a perfect farewell," Five Iron Frenzy ranked pretty highly. Well, the new album turns out to be a worthy addition to their legacy. It didn't immediately blow me away, but I think that's just because I'm a different person than I was a decade and a half ago, when I heard "My Evil Plan to Save the World". Still, the new tunes like "Against a Sea of Troubles", "So Far", and "Into Your Veins" are songs whose greatness isn't immediately apparent on the first listen. I'm very interested to see where this new chapter of the FIF story is going.
and this is his video. I guess it does sound pretty nice